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Headword: *tmage/n
Adler number: tau,712
Translated headword: they were chopped, they were cleaved
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] cut[-off].[1]
Greek Original:
*tmage/n: kope/n.
Notes:
In this exact form, with an acute accent on the final syllable, the headword is attested only here. To judge by the gloss (see note below), the Suda took it to be, and presented it as, an aorist participle in the neuter singular. But comparison with other lexica implies that it is, rather, a mistaken accentuation of the epic third-person plural aorist passive form tma/gen (where the accent falls on the first syllable), extracted from Homer, Iliad 16.374, they were broken off (web address 1). For the verb tmh/gw (I cut, I cleave) see LSJ s.v.
[1] The gloss comes from the verb ko/ptw (I cut off or I smite, the latter especially suggesting the use of a tool or weapon; see LSJ s.v.). For this participle see e.g. Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 5.11.1, of a tree that dies after having been chopped.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; imagery; military affairs
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 23 October 2008@00:08:13.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword and tr; reworked and streamlined notes) on 23 October 2008@05:10:01.
David Whitehead on 14 August 2011@09:15:52.
David Whitehead on 14 January 2014@05:14:28.
Catharine Roth (translated a title) on 30 March 2017@01:45:05.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 2 September 2022@16:22:14.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 4 September 2022@22:34:47.

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